Ft Alphachat

It's another Alphachat, our now reasonably frequent podcast. This time Izzy, Cardiff and David meander from gold and bitcoin, via the Bank of Japan all the way to Slovenia.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alphaville chats about Cyprus, capital controls, Argentina's ongoing sovereign debt restructuring trial of the century and the Fed.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

FT Alphaville hosts a free-wheeling podcast to discuss currency wars, debt monetisation, the G20, mobile payments, and US immigration. They also answer readers' questions. Featuring turns by Lisa Pollack, Izzy Kaminska, David Keohane, Joseph Cotterill and Cardiff Garcia  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jan Hatzius, the chief US economist for Goldman Sachs, explains to FT Alphaville’s Cardiff Garcia why he expects US growth to slow in the first half of 2012. Mr Hatzius says the US economy is particularly vulnerable to European banks with significant US holdings.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this edition, Cardiff Garcia talks with Sal Arnuk, co-head of Themis Trading, about high frequency trading and the fragmented trading infrastructure in the US. Among the topics covered are the regulatory and technological reasons for the dramatic changes of the last decade, high frequency traders' role in the flash crash and how they might contribute to another, and why academic support for HFT falls short.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this edition, Cardiff Garcia talks with Peking University finance professor Michael Pettis about the limits of China's economic model, why we shouldn't trust the country's growth numbers, and the state of its banking system. Pettis also shares what it's like to run a nightclub and manage an indie record label in Beijing.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.